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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just hate sports around here.  I was on a neighborhood swim team for years in the 80s, through my teens.    We didn’t have turn judges and the only DQs I remember were the people who dove before the gun (and even then I think you got at least one false start do-over).  People take themselves—or their kids—so seriously here!! Who cares what their kids’ times are?  Do you think you have a little michael Phelps?  Some of the kids I swam with later swam for Stanford, so I think they somehow managed to learn how to swim without being DQed by turn judges.  
This is part of why I don’t let my kids do swim team.  So ridiculous.
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DQing is not about being competitive, it is about being fair. Why should a kid be rewarded for getting a faster time when they didn't swim a stroke properly?

You don't want your kid doing swim team because because they may get DQd and told they didn't swim a stroke right? Personally, i want my kids to learn how to do it right. So many kids start out in summer swim and later go on to swim for year round competitive teams.  Summer swim is one of the highlight of my kids year; they absolutely love it. My son loved it even back during his first season where he got lots of DQs for breast, being on the team and competing was fun to him. He learned from his mistakes and is now a great swimmer who loved the sport. [/quote]

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